Clothes-pin-making machine



N. M. MIMS.

CLOTHES PIN MAKING MACHINE.

APPLI'CATION FILED MAY 29. 1917.

1 ,305,92 1 Patented J une 3, 1919.

N. M. MIMS.

CLOTHES PIN MAKING MACHINE. APPLlCATlON .FILED MAY 29. 1917.

1,305,921 Patented June 3, 1919.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

NORMAN M. MIMS, 0F SEVILLE, FLORIDA.

CLOTHES-PIN-MAKING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 3, 1919.

Application filed May 29, 1917. Serial No. 171,779.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NORMAN M. MIMS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Seville, in the county of Volusia and State of Florida, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pin-MakingMachines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact descrip tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertainsto make and use the same.

The invention relates to a clothes pin making machine.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple, practicaland efficient machine of strong, durable and inexpensive constructionadapted to be easily operated by one person and capable of successivelyoperating on wire and of enabling the same to be rapidly bent and coiledto form a. wire clothes pin and a ring or loop for enabling the clothespin to be slidably placed on a clothes line of wire, or other material.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in theconstruction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described,illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claimhereto appended; it being understood that va-.

rious changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details ofconstruction, within the scope of the claim, may be resorted to withoutdeparting from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of theinvention.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is an end elevation of the clothes pin making machineconstructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the clothes pin making machine.

Fig. 4. is a detail perspective View of a portion of one of the shaftsor spindles.

Fig. 5 is a similar view of the other shaft or spindle.

Fig. 6 is a detail sectional View illustrating the manner of mountingthe eccentrically arranged pins.

Fig. 7 is a detail perspective View of one of the clothes pins.

Fig. 8 is an end view of the same.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the severalfigures of the drawings.

In the accompanying drawings, in which is illustrated the preferredembodiment of the invention, the clothes pin making machine comprises inits construction a standard 1 constructed of wood or other suitablematerial and provided adjacent to its lower end with an opening 2adapted to receive a tenon or reduced portion 3 of a base a extendingfrom the lower portion of the standard. In practice, the base will bearranged at a slight inclination, being supported at its rear end by thestandard and resting at its front end upon the supporting surface, butin the accompanying drawings the standard is shown vertical and the basehorizontal for convenience in illustration. The reduced portion or tenon3 is secured in the opening 2 by a pin 5 piercing the outer portion ofthe tenon and connected with the standard by a flexible strip 6 toprevent it from becoming lost when the base and the standard areseparated for convenience in carrying or storing. The standard isadapted to be arranged flat upon the base when disconnected therefrom,and the clothes pin making machine will occupy.

only a comparatively small amount of space and may be easily transferredfrom one point or place to another.

The standard is equipped at its upper end with a pair of spaced parallelupwardly projecting jaws 7 of rectangular form and constructed fromoblong plates or blanks which are angularly bent at spaced points toform the said jaws 7 'an intermediate supporting portion 8 and.depending attaching portions 9. The transverse supporting portion 8 isarranged at right angles to the jaws? and the attaching portion 9 and itforms with the said attaching portion an approximately L-shaped shank tofit against the upper end and side face of the standard. The attachingportions are secured to the standard by means'of a transverse bolt 10and screws 11, but any other suitable fastening means may of course beemployed for this purpose. The bolt pierces the standard and theattaching portions and the screws are embedded in the standard. The jawsare spaced apart a'suificient distance to permit a piece of wire to beintroduced into them and they are rigid and enable the wire to be bentto form transverse loops 12 of a wire clothes pin 13.

The terminal of the wire at one end of the clothes pin is bent orpartially coiled to form an eye 14 and at a diagonal point of thetransverse loops to provide an eye 15 or spring coil, by means of alower shaft or spindle 16, preferably consisting of a tube having a head17 at one end provided with spaced eccentrically arranged projections orpins 18, which are adapted to engage the wire and form a coil thereinwhen the shaft or spindle 16 is rotated. The head 17 may be convenientlyformed by a coupling and the projections 18 may consist of pins embedded in'a block 19 fitted in the coupling and abutting against theadjacent end of the shaft or spindle. The wooden block 19* is driveninto the coupling and the body portion of the shaft or spindle 16 formsa convenient stop. Any other suitable means may of course be employedfor forming the head and mounting the eccentric projections. Thecoupling is also adapted to fit against the standard at one side thereofand the shaft 16 is pierced at the other side of the standard by a bolt20 which cooperates with the head 17 to retain the shaft or spindle inthe opening 21 of the standard. The spindle or shaft 16 is provided, atthe end opposite that in which the head is 10- cated,'with a crankhandle 22 by means of which it is rotated.

In forming the loop or eye 14k, the end portion of the wire is insertedbetween the and tensioned in the direction opposite to the direction ofrotation of the spindle, the end portion of the wire being thus wrappedabout the pins 18 to. form loop l-ZL. It is important to note thatduring the first half rotation of spindle 16,v the extreme terminalportion of the wire will be bent about one of the pins only so as toform a rela-. tively small loop, the wire being subsequently bent, aboutboth of the pins so as to form the relatively large loop 14, the smallloop being cut ofi of the free end of the larger loop 'so as to avoidobjectionable projections. 'In forming the smaller loop. 15, the wireis. inserted between the two pins 18 and spindle 16 is then movedthrough a half rotation thus bending the wire about one of the pins 18in the manner previously described so as to produce the relatively smallloop or eye 15, the arms of the wire at the opposite terminals of thisloop or eye being disposed substantially at right angles to each otherso as to permit ready forming of the coils 23, due to the fact that, as

stated, spindle 16 1s moved through a half the slot 27 to permit thecoils 28 to be formed around the said loops. The clothes pin has a shank28 whichconnects the ring 24 with the spring 'coils 23, and the saidring is adapted to be formedon the slotted portion of the shaft orspindle, after which the terminal 29 of the wire may be twisted or bentaround the stem 28 by the eccentrically arranged projections 18. Theshaft or spindle 25 is provided at opposite sides of the standard withpins or keys 3.0 like the pin-or key 20 of the shaft or standard, toprevent longitudinal movement of the shaft or spindle 25. in the opening26. Any other suitable means may of course be employed to limit orprevent such longitudinal movement, and the shaft 26 is provided with acrankhandle 31 by means of which it may be rotated.

hat is claimed is:

A clothes pin making machine including a standard having a transverseopening, a rotar shaft extending through the said opening andpro-videdat one end with a tubular head of greater diameter than theshaft and projecting from such end of the same and forming an innerexterior shoulder orstop to fit against the said standard,

said shaft also forming a shoulder. inte- NORMAN MIMs.

lVitncSSes:

J. A. WATERS, G. P. BLANTON.

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